Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickenswas an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity...
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 February 1812
forgive lambs mrs nor spoke words worms
But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive . . . nor worms forget.
dear exactly harsh legal replied word
Why, I don't exactly know about perjury, my dear sir, replied the little gentleman. "Harsh word, my dear sir, very harsh word indeed. It's a legal fiction, my dear sir, nothing more.
dictionary eyes folding idiots leaning letter slightly smoking speaking word
Then idiots talk, said Eugene, leaning back, folding his arms, smoking with his eyes shut, and speaking slightly through his nose, ""of Energy. If there is a word in the dictionary under any letter from A to Z that I abominate, it is energy.
again calm word
It's calm and - what's that word again - critical! - no - classical, that's it - it is calm and classical.
talking words-of-wisdom sitting
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
reality words-of-wisdom accomplished
I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished.
believe words-of-wisdom world
Its matter was not new to me, but was presented in a new aspect. It shook me in my habit - the habit of nine-tenths of the world - of believing that all was right about me, because I was used to it...
book beer words-of-wisdom
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
words-of-wisdom cheerful poor
Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?
words-of-wisdom records trials
Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!
men words-of-wisdom daylight
He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
words-of-wisdom classic trifles
Trifles make the sum of life.
words-of-wisdom said being-true
Everybody said so. Far be it from me to assert that what everybody says must be true. Everybody is, often, as likely to be wrong as right.